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Posted: 7/18/06 at 12:22pm
And, holy crap, it turns out, I'm Camille Paglia!
On the Madonna Confessions Tour:
""... I wasn't thrilled with it. I simply wanted to see her --not be assaulted by an avalanche of pretentious, irrelevant images dizzily winking on giant screens. ... The lugubrious montage of doleful African orphans framing a glammed up Madonna as she reclined on her sparkly disco crucifix was too much by twenty miles."
On Brokeback Mountain:
""I don't think Brokeback Mountain is a great film. It's far too long, soggy, and monotonous, and its bleak portrait of small-town and working-class life is (in my indignant view) condescending and offensively elitist."
"I was steadily annoyed by the over-stylish, absurdly clean and unwrinkled clothes of the two leads (they looked like Ralph Lauren catalog models) and by the sexist stereotyping of their betrayed and increasingly unattractive wives."
"As for Jake Gyllenhaal, I found him initially intriguing, but all that smirky eyelash-batting began grating on me. By the second half, he had morphed (with the mustache and sideburns) into a Las Vegas-period Wayne Newton impersonator--hardly a macho role model. I found the sudden removal of Gyllenhaal's character from the script via a brutal gay-bashing simplistic and egregious--although no more so than the earlier bizarre mutilation-murder of an old gay man in a gully, which Ledger's character was improbably forced to narrate."
By the way, have you read my book, Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems? It's fabulous, if I do say so myself.
[interview at outrate.net (via the DL)]
On the Madonna Confessions Tour:
""... I wasn't thrilled with it. I simply wanted to see her --not be assaulted by an avalanche of pretentious, irrelevant images dizzily winking on giant screens. ... The lugubrious montage of doleful African orphans framing a glammed up Madonna as she reclined on her sparkly disco crucifix was too much by twenty miles."
On Brokeback Mountain:
""I don't think Brokeback Mountain is a great film. It's far too long, soggy, and monotonous, and its bleak portrait of small-town and working-class life is (in my indignant view) condescending and offensively elitist."
"I was steadily annoyed by the over-stylish, absurdly clean and unwrinkled clothes of the two leads (they looked like Ralph Lauren catalog models) and by the sexist stereotyping of their betrayed and increasingly unattractive wives."
"As for Jake Gyllenhaal, I found him initially intriguing, but all that smirky eyelash-batting began grating on me. By the second half, he had morphed (with the mustache and sideburns) into a Las Vegas-period Wayne Newton impersonator--hardly a macho role model. I found the sudden removal of Gyllenhaal's character from the script via a brutal gay-bashing simplistic and egregious--although no more so than the earlier bizarre mutilation-murder of an old gay man in a gully, which Ledger's character was improbably forced to narrate."
By the way, have you read my book, Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems? It's fabulous, if I do say so myself.
[interview at outrate.net (via the DL)]
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